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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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time unless it's a bat, some sort of a rodent,
or some homeless individual who walks in off the street
and does what he's doing, or he's looking for somebody's
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in the other room. That is so bad my eyes
or water. What I gotta admit, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What did you eat?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I was trying to figure this out, so I had steaks,
but I also had some artichokes.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
So you are so disgusting what I'm discussing because I
had because what I ate, No.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Just what comes out of you.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
It should not smell like that ever, no matter what
you ate.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, it is pretty bad. I gotta admit, usually I
don't mind it, but like there's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Something dead inside that won't come out. That's fair, That's
absolutely fair.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I'm what you got it though, Jonas, and not me,
because I'm always the one who gets dusted.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So I felt bad because well, I was in my
my little hovel of a studio in the back corner,
so I wasn't expecting anybody, so I kind of let
win a rip, and.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Then I was cutting up some sound.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
As well as cutting up some some gas, and then
Jonas came to listen.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here's the flaw in that thinking. That's not your studio,
that's everybody's studio. And there's other people in this whole studio,
so you are not alone.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Where do you want me to go?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Like, walk out? Start, go to the bathroom outside, go
to the bathroom, or go outside.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You gave me crap for us in the bathroom last week.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Can I dig in a little deeper on this lee?
What did you drink with that nice steak you had?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh? I know I already knows menu that wine.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
No, No, I I had a little morning morning treat
to myself, but nothing in the evening. I think I
just had a soda or something with it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
A morning treat because because let me just read through
some of the rundown, if you will. In this hour,
we're supposed to talk about Rudell, how Rudell wanted Lions
to submit rule for it's not even a finished sentence.
At another point in the rundown, you have titled Lucy Goosey,
Lucy Goosey. Who is Brudell?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Goodell didn't it's it's well is that the uh they
design helmets?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, helps, that's actually that's actually Rye Dell.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
This was the last second change and I was in
the middle of again cutting some sound for the title
of hour two. That was the last minute audible.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I mean, you're one of a kind, man, You truly
are one.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But you know, you know what I meant by it,
So it's so good.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, I know what you meant by it. Can
I actually tell you how I absolutely screwed over my
daughter's soccratea this weekend? What'd you do?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
My daughter at a soccer tournament in South Florida, And
here's the entire backstory in about ten seconds. It's a
city league team that was, like, man, we've dominated for
a few years. Now, let's try to play at a
club tournament and see how we do. And it's really
a bunch of kids who live in the same neighborhood
that just kind of played together now for a few years.
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So we enter a tournament, and there may have been
like another dad in the neighborhood who was talking crap
because his daughter played on a club team. That may
have been some of the genesis or some of the
motivation behind it. But nevertheless, we entered the tournament and
the girls the first game win two to one, and
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they they played pretty well. Honestly, they could have won
by more. But this this other team had this goalie.
This girl was unbelievable. I've never seen a kid that
young like pull off some of the moves that she
was making and understand angles and just I mean she
took a rocket and like punched the thing away.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm like, holy crab, like legitimate that a legitimate like
Little League World seriesans.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
No, no, legitimate. And honestly, I walked over, I said,
Who's whose daughter is that? I was like, your daughter
is unbelievable. I made my daughter go over and tell
her after the game. I mean, ultimately, again, they won
two to one. But I was like, go tell that
girl she did a hell of a job because they
basically had two players. It was the goalie and that
girl was playing forward and that was about it. So
they win that game. The next game, they're out there
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playing and my daughter plays more sweepers. He kind of
plays more defense, and she's got a pretty big leg. Well,
for some reason, the the ref wasn't allowing her on
goalkicks to like kick the ball down the field. That's
in essence how they scored the game winning goal. She
launched one down the field to one of the forwards.
The Fords went and scored and they ended up winning
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two to one. So he's like, no, you have to
like pass it out wide because it's more for development
and so the girls can do all this stuff. Well,
we were trying to come I was. I was sitting there.
I was like, this is the stupidest thing in the world,
because if a girl shot the ball from you know,
midfield and scored, they wouldn't say, well, you can't do that,
because this leagus is about development and we went you
to pass and stuff and then working in for a goal.
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So they'd allow that. But they wouldn't allow someone to
advance the ball on a goal kick, so it doesn't
make any sense. And by the way, no official the
rest of the tournament held us to that. So I
come up with the idea that we have the goalie
tap it to her and then she then launches it,
which we asked the official and she says, yeah, that
would be fine, So we're like, okay, So now we
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feel like we got something here. So the first couple
of times works out great, but when you're playing like
a U nine sport, there's gonna be times where it
doesn't work out great. And so since it was something
that the girls didn't practice, the goalie taps it, she
goes to kick, kind of mishits it more goes in
the middle of the field. Now we got a real
problem because there's a ford there for the other team
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waiting on it. The goalie's out of position, My daughter's
at a position, so they're all sprinting to get back
and she I think she tried to like slide tackle
to like get the ball, shot got off, goalie couldn't
get a hand on it, and so they end up
tying that game one to one. So not the worst
thing in the world, but like kind of you know,
didn't go great. And then the last game they blowed
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the team out like five to nothing, six nothing. The
problem is they were in a tie, and so there's
a goal differential and be basically because the team we
tied with had had a greater goal differential, they ended
up advancing to the championship round. So I was like
the entire time I was We're like flying back and
thinking to myself, if I just shut my mouth didn't
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say anything, who knows how that whole thing would have
played out. Well, was it?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Was it a difference the tiebreaker? Was it one goal?
So that one?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It actually well no, But but what I'm saying is
the team we tied with was the team we tied. Okay,
that was their only goal they got was off of
that particular play because we tied one to one. Yeah,
so had we just beat that team won nothing, we
would have been playing in the championship. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But you know what, Hey, you threw a wrinkle into things.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know about that. I mean, I don't know,
you know, So I told I told the coach raft
of the game was that's completely on me. I was like,
I should have just shut my mouth and I'll said anything.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
So, by the way, I can't wait till this story
pops up. And in case you missed it, and Lee
does a deal on how somebody in a youth soccer
game had a goalie who was thirty five who was
playing with playing with eight nine year olds.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm telling you, the one little girl we saw played
like she was thirty five. It was she came out
on like a breakaway and it was one of those
where like they kind of put their hands wide and
get low. The girl rockets the shot from our team
and she like stuck her leg out last second to
deflect it. And I'm like, holy crap, Like where is
this girl learning all this? But it's crazy, man. You
go to certain parts of the country and like soccer
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is real, soccer is life, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
God, and the tournaments all day Like there's fields all
around out here and there's just tournaments all day long,
like people just play all day long. So well, but.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
By the way, speaking of like trying to implement things
or like ending at trying to implement things that could
go wrong or not, this is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I love it when somebody has somebody else do their
dirty work for him. This is great, according to Pride
of Detroit, which by the way, is also manned by
our guy, Chris Burffett here Fox Sports Radio member of
the family. Here, Lions team president Rod Wood revealed an
interesting fact about the overall process of the Lions' presentation
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of reseting the playoff format, which is one of these
stories we did last week, one of the possible rule
changes that has been tabled until the meetings in May
at the with the NFL. Much like the Tush push well,
Rodwood said that the presentation of this whole thing, it
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wasn't the Lions idea, It was actually the nfls And
we take you all the way back to before the
Week eighteen finale between the Vikings and the Lions, with
so much on the line, Who was going to have
a home field advantage, who was going to host a
playoff game?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Who wasn't?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This was Lions wide receiver amed Ross Saint Brown talking
about his issue with how this whole thing worked in
the NFL. This was before that Week eighteen finale.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I think that most of the changed.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You in a division, you should obviously make a playoffs pot,
but having a fourteen win team having to go on
the road's kind of crazy, but I guess, you know,
I don't make a rope sell Hopefully, hopefully we can
get a win and get home to advantage. But whatever,
whatever happens, we both have a spot of playoff, so
we might see each other again after this game.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Apparently that clip of Amanas Saint Brown being critical of
the playoff seating and the format that is currently in
place in the NFL, it caught the eye of the NFL.
So Troy Vincent, the NFL's executive vice president of football Operations,
contacted Rod Wood, the team president of the Lions, and,
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according to Wood the following quote, Troy from the league
reached out to me and said, I tend to agree
with aman Ross Saint Brown. Would you mind partnering with
us on making a proposal on that? So we made
a proposal. So this whole way the Lions have this
radical No. No, this was the NFL going, yeah, hey, listen,
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if we present this idea, you know, maybe there'll be
some pushback. But if you know, you guys wanted to
throw it out there, why don't we get together on
this and try and to see if we can get
this implemented next year, so little, hey, do my dirty
work for me, because you know, I want to make
sure that I'm at least keeping a safe distance away
from this story altogether.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Do you guys feel though that that's the case, Like,
I actually feel like it seems like it's more bias
and more of like kind of a recent emotional reaction
to what happened to the Lions, you know what I'm saying, like,
or at least what happened in their division, I should say,
with the vikings.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Meaning that you think that this was just a Lions
like I look at it and I go the NFL
liked the idea. The NFL wants to do something different.
That's why it's been tabled. And Albert Breer mentioned this
when we talked to him on Friday. He said, Ben,
you know, like Roger Goodell is pushing for the things,
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which is why they've been tabled until May. If it
was just going to be eliminated, they just get rid
of it. That's terrible idea, correct, correct?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think what you're missing is and what I'm trying
to say is that you know it sounds more biased
with a team coming up with this than it does
if the league is because when when you hear it
like the league the way you're presenting it right now, Well,
that's that's the owners, that's the team. They're all part
of it. Like I don't view their separation between the
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league and the Lions like the Lions are part of
the league. They're part of the ownership group that you
know is the boss to Roger Goodell and comprises all
of this. So what's interesting to me is I feel
like when it comes from like, for example, the Tushbush band,
you know something that By the way, also if you
read this article that talks about the NFL, kind of
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wants that out too. Okay, well, the NFL is part
of the league, so not obviously every team the league does.
But I mean the Packers are for it because they
put their name and stamp on it. But if Roger
Goodell and Troy Vincent in particular, who's a part of this.
If they're looking and they're saying like, we don't feel
like this is good for the league, then why would
it be bad if they put their name on it,
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Like why is it bad if they're the ones pushing
to put this in front and then go provide it
some data in it, like you know, from maybe some
surveyors or other people who watch and say, hey to
our fans out there, like people who like, do you
like this play or what do you think should a
team that went fourteen and three have to go on
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the road in the first round of the playoffs because
some of their team won their division? I think the
greater piece to all of it. And this is the
part that if you really start to, you know, break
down what feeds the NFL, and that's obviously the TV
networks and those media rights deals. If we're saying, okay,
they're playing a seventeen game season right now, right eventually
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we'll get to eighteen, dude, some of those games are meaningless.
Why are they meaningless? Well, you know, if it's if
you're prioritizing the division games, yeah, okay, then there's other
games that don't matter quite as much, right And then
there's there's games too where if you already have the
division locked up at the end of the season, maybe
week sixteen seventeen, depending on the scheduling, doesn't matter. Now.
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Part of the reason why the NFL, and if you've
noticed in the recent past, like five years, they make
all of these division matchups to finish the season, and
even some of the start they kind of bookend them
because that's what they want, Like they want to, you know,
entice you to watch because something could be on the line.
Well as oftentimes you've got teams too, there's really nothing
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they can do from a seating standpoint, or the division's
already decided, so they're sitting starters, and it's not really
as worthwhile to watch. Like if I was a TV network,
I would have a problem with that, where I'm trying
to sell a product at the end of the season
that doesn't have as much on the line, and yeah,
I'm trying to you know, you know, shift and adjust
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and move around. I mean, I'll be fully transparent. I
usually when I get to call NFL games because of
the way our college football schedule works at Fox, and
I'm lucky enough to be thrown one or two, you know,
in those week eighteen, you know, seventeenth game scenarios, you
have no idea where you're going, and largely because you know,
there's times on the networks there's games that are meaningful,
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there's games that aren't. But sometimes those big brands are
actually playing games that aren't as meaningful, and so then
there's a decision of like, are you gonna put somebody
who doesn't do this full time on with some of
those bigger brands because they're gonna have a bigger market share.
You're gonna put them, you know, some of the top
talent on these other games that they're actually you know,
it's for a playoff spot, it's for the divisions, for
whatever else. Like all those decisions have to be made.
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And all I was saying is like everything becomes more
meaningful if every game matters, and if you're not making
it where every game matters because it's not about overall record,
then you don't have as good as a product at
the end of the year. So in saying that, I
just I don't understand how that point to NFL owners
And I get the old guard and oh, you gotta
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win your division, Okay, cool. I don't get how that
doesn't resonate with all of the owners because they're all
going to be in a position at some point where
they probably had a better a better overall record then
maybe even a team that they're gonna have to play
in the playoffs in their conference that won their division
and then potentially weaker division.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, and I guess there's a couple of things that
I'm a little curious about why. And I'm with you
because this, I mean, it's a no brainer, makes all
the sense in the world. Why wouldn't Why would the
NFL go to the Lions and be like, hey, throw
it out there. Hey, hey, that's a good idea. Throw
it out there. Let's see if we can get that.
Don't they have the autonomy to be able to present
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any idea to the owners or any idea of the league.
It's not like they haven't dropped hints before in the media.
When Roger Goodell was, you know, first thinking about the
eighteen game season that happened last year at the draft
that was in Detroit. He was on the Pat McAfee
show starring AJ Hawk the next day on Friday, and
throughout the eighteen game play.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh and by the.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Way, eighteen game season and a you know, it's it's
more games. Who doesn't want more games? So it's not
like they haven't used this before. So why did they
need the Lions to present this? Why couldn't they do
it like that? That's the part that's kind of strange
to me, Like, why wouldn't they have just said, hey,
here's an idea, we think this would be better for
the league, and listen playoff teams, because I don't the
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argument against it from anybody doesn't make sense, Like why
you would want, well, if you win your division, you
should be rewarded. Well, yeah, it's called a playoff spot.
Like it's not like, you know, well, well, then just
get rid of divisions altogether. No, that's not what anybody's saying.
If you win your division, you get a playoff spot,
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but you shouldn't be awarded also a home playoff game
if you're a nine and eight football team in an
awful division and they're other teams have been better for
the majority of the year, like you should like you
shouldn't be given that advantage as well too. So it
does make all the sense in the world. I just
don't know why the NFL couldn't present it, why they
needed the Lions to be the messenger on this and
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then and have it thrown out that way.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I'd be curious too if there's instances where there's head
to head play where they've played each other and it
it ends up you know, not it doesn't factor in
either you know, I know they've made caveats in this
rule and to say, oh, well if you're you know,
five hundred, which when it's funny when you hear that language,
you know that's coming from some in the league office,
and you know it's coming from some in the league office,
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because well, you can't be five hundred with seventeen games,
but you sure is you sure better believe they're gonna
be No. Eighteen soon because that's one of their initiatives
with the league office. So if that's the case, that's
why they're throwing that language in there. But if they're
saying if you're five hundred or sub five hundred, you
don't get the host one, it's like we don't need
to do that, Like like I get that too, trust
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me that that's to me is one of the biggest
points is like, you know, the divisions so weak, you
have a team within you know, a terrible overall record,
yet they're getting the host to get it rewarded for
it because their division is so bad, like there's no doubt.
Like that kind of in and of itself is an example.
But to your point about why it has to be
a team as opposed to Roger Goodell, I have no
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idea because Roger Goodell has done nothing but print money
for these owners. He's continually pushed the ball down the
field and adding a seventeenth game, you know, adding an
additional playoff team on each side. I mean, he's done
an unbelievable job in the CBAS. He's taken the Union
to the mat. And I'm sorry if you know former players,
current players, people at the Union when I say that,
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But like I came into the NFL with Roger Goodell.
I've watched everything he's done. Like, if you're an owner,
you want this guy to be in that position forever
because I think he's done a really good job. Not look,
he's had his moments, you know, probably how they he's
handled domestic violence issues, and especially when he first came
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in and he was kind of the judge the jury
and execution with how we'd go about handling you know,
the player conduct policy and how they took advantage of
you know, a clause or or something that was in
the CBA forever, but he kind of took it to
new lengths. Like that's that's another conversation. But as far
as making money for the owners, he's been incredible. So
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I don't know why they wouldn't take every every single
thing he says and go, yeah, guys, like here's the deal,
Like we get we get the week seven, sixteen seventeen.
Sometimes the divisions are wrapped, these games are meaningless, and
he might say, well, okay, then it matters for like
the overall seating of it. Okay, sure that'd be the
case regardless though, like that would be the case regardless
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if you change this. It's not going to influence that
one way or another. What's going to influence it is
if there's nothing to play for in that week seventeen game,
and so you basically, you know, excuse me, a week
eighteen game, seventeenth game of the season. But you're basically
throwing out there a crap bag and saying, yeah, we
want you to tune in to watch. And so the
ratings take like a little bit of a dip, Like
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you want to know how to today? Could you to
keep growing it? Add on an eighteenth game, but make
sure it's meaningful. That's the other part of this. So
I don't know why they wouldn't trust Roger Goodell, Troy Vincent,
the rest of the folks at the NFL office for
the job they've done for them for the entirety of
the time they've been there.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And by the way, looking at the week eighteen schedule,
upon further review, there were some bad games, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I mean, we'll go back through how many were actually
meaningful outside of Detroit, Minnesota, which had everything on the
line in that instance. And also also think about this, like,
even under that scenario, right, even under that scenario, that
division plays out as dramatic as it could, right yep,
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or the number one overall seed, the division champ, everything's
still on the line for that. So it doesn't mean
that just making this subtle change is going to necessarily
change like how things play out or if there's gonna
be drama including in it. Like that was one example
of why you know, you could make this change. You
could still keep a lot of the drama that we
had this past year.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So Cleveland Baltimore had obviously because Baltimore was in it,
that had some you know, some implications.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But well they had already won the division though, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
So that was already wrapped up. Cincinnati needed to win
at Pittsburgh to stay alive.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And they needed help though.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, they needed they needed Denver to lose to Kansas City,
which didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Because Kansas City sat all the people because there's nothing
to play for, you.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, and then you've got you know, speaking of crap bags,
Carolina and Atlanta. There was that game Washington Dallas. Washington
won that game. They got into the postseason. They were
actually one of those teams that had to go on
the road against Tampa Bay when they probably should have
hosted that game because they had a better record than
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Tampa Bay who won the Division Bears Packers. Green Bay
rested a lot of their starters because there was nothing
to play for. They were already going to go on
the road. It was just a matter of where they
were going to go. Yeah, like you just you go
down the list, and it like that changes everything, like
because now it's and like now it's all right if
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you're playing somebody and say you have nothing to play
like the Bears, for example, they've got nothing to play
for other than pride, and you know, you want to
try and hurt the other team you're playing it's a
division rival. Well, if Green Bay wins that game when
they host a playoff game, but they lose and now
they've got to go on the road. That feels like
a small victory like that, like you're playing so like
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the idea that you're an owner or you're somebody who's
got this guy in Roger Goodell who's made millions upon
millions upon millions, possibly billions of dollars for the league
and you the owners, why you wouldn't be open minded
to more interest, more revenue, more eyeby all of that
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in games that don't matter whatsoever. It just it doesn't
make any sense to me, Like I just I honestly
don't get the argument against this from anybody. And maybe
that's why it's getting talked about next month again.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Anyways.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So so that is the That is the latest from
the NFL and the and the push for and by
the way, for the NFL. If you want Brady and
I to speak at the meetings in May, we'll pull
up a chair next to Pete Prisco and Albert Breer
and make that happen. You know that we're willing to
do that. Here on the show, it is two pros
and a cup of Joe. Here on Fox Sports Radio,
Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with the air Coming up next, though,
(25:39):
we are going to find out what Lucy Goosey means
in the world of sports right here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
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Speaker 3 (26:01):
All right, so we are going to have an FSRI
i R coming up here a little over twelve minutes
from now here from the tairaq dot com studios. Did
you notice, by the way, also, I wanted to compliment
you on something we didn't get to last break because
we were so late. But the term crap bag, well done,
well done. That is, that is an outstanding term that
(26:22):
you have, that you've brought to the forefront. Cannot wait
to use that one again. That is that is well
placed by you. So crap bag. For those of you
wondering when not even say crap bag, you said, Alas, yeah,
you don't even realize it. You just said you said
crap bag, and I started laughing because it's a great term. Yeah,
(26:43):
So so there was there was actually I remember the
first time I heard that you use that we did
this how long ago? This was why why I remember this?
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I need to get a life.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
But we did the Sunday night show you called the
season finale that year of the forty nine ers in
the Rams, and it was Colin Kaepernick's last game in
the NFL and Chip Kelly was the coach for the Niners, right,
And I remember you saying afterwards, like, yeah, you know,
(27:16):
Chip wouldn't really say it, but you could tell he
wasn't pleased with the crap bag that was thrown at
him this year from the whole fiasco of the anthem
and the kneeling and everything that came along with it.
And I still remember that because I had never heard
that term before, and then he brought it back all
these years later.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I think you're giving me too much credit for something
that I don't deserve any credit for.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah, I think I think it's outstanding. I wanted to
ask you this though, because I did notice a trend
as we were talking about the owners.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
This is what Lucy Goosey means, because.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I guess, but I did notice something last week because
there was a lot of storylines that came out as
we mentioned, you know, these rule proposals in the NFL
that they're going to come back with in May and
figure out the push push and the receding of the
playoffs potentially. But I did kind of kind of find
it kind of funny that last week there was a
(28:08):
lot of discussion from owners openly about players under contract
in a way that I don't recall it being so
open before. And it wasn't just one owner, like, hey,
Jerry Jones got a little bit uh loosey goosey himself
and started talking about it wasn't wasn't anything like that.
(28:30):
It was multiple owners. It was Jimmy Haslam brutally honest
about Deshaun Watson, a guy who's on his roster. Of course,
Jerry Jones, I don't know who MICHAEH Parsons agent is,
Katie Blackburn from the Bengals talking about Trey Hendrickson and
just kind of hey, look, I mean, you know, he's
got to be happy with the number that he gets.
(28:51):
Arthur Blank talking about Kirk Cousins, Hey, he was paid. Well,
you know, I think I don't think he's complaining. Like
you even had Jed Yorke talk about well, we're rebuilding
because you know, we've got to pay rock party. Like
it just felt like and maybe it's nothing, but it
just felt like for some reason, multiple times owners and
execs talked in a way about players under contract or
(29:15):
situations in their team from a contract standpoint that you
don't normally hear. And I'm just trying to figure out
what it was. Were they boozing? Are they just fed
up with players complaining about their deal? Like I sort
of got like, I just I'm looking back on that
happened a lot last week.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
For some Yeah, I think it's it might be just
the dan age're in right now, where everyone seems to
be negotiating or manipulating through the media. It doesn't matter
if you're talking of like politics, news, sports, whatever, you're
getting a lot of that. I think that's one of
the things that players have been able to do and
gain back some power in the in the way they
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go about communicating what's going on, in the manner in
which they try to put pressure on ownership groups right
or pressure on their organization, especially in a contract dispute
or contract negotiation. You know, this is one way instead
of in the old days, it was likely you didn't
have social media, you didn't have you know, your own
podcasts or other ways of being able to, you know,
(30:17):
go out there and control the narrative. In this world
we live in now you can, and that I think
can put a lot of pressure on an owner that
you know. Obviously, some of them they kind of stay
out of sight and you don't hear from very often.
Others like being more involved, like Jerry Jones and the
conversations around the NFL consistently, that's not normal, and so
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most of them don't like when they have to come
to the mic. They don't like when they have to
come that have to say things, and they're provoked to
sometimes from the players. I mean, think about the whole
Trey Hendrickson situation. He responded to something that Katie Blackburn said.
You know, in the old days, Katie Blackburn would say
something like that. And I remember watching a clip from
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two thousand and nine. I believe they drafted Andre Smith
in the first round, and you know, they're showing us
on hard knocks and that was at that time, and
I think we had just gotten Twitter probably, but at
that time, you know, you're hearing one side of it,
really and the only reason we heard the other side
of it is because HBO hard knocks a side of
the interview the agent of Andre Smith, and so they
(31:25):
showed him and he was a little bit more guarded
in what he was saying, and you know they kind
of see them coming in and out. But like the
Bengals and Katie Blackmen, we are very you know, open
to it, you know, putting all the pressure and making
it seem like well, the players, you know, being greeting
what we're offering is fair all stuff, and it's like,
you know, that used to be the way it used
to be the norm. Now you have much more player
(31:45):
empowerment with this use of social media platforms and all
the other tools that are available to these athletes, and
so I think everything's kind of become more public in
that manner, you know, even to a degree. A lot
of content which we watch. I mean, TV show wasn't
quite as big as it once used to be. Now
you've got a reality TV show for everything.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
It's just kind of wild, Like I'm looking at this happened, going, hey, Jimmy,
Deshaun stolen your roster, dude, Like what.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Do we did?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
It just aired about like Jerry Jones doing it, and
I just wonder if like some of these owners are like,
all right, I'm sick of this crap. They want to
play that game. We can do this too. These are
our meetings and we're just gonna let it fly, all right, Okay,
I guess I guess this is just how we're doing.
Everybody's just gonna be as transparent as possible. So yeah,
by the way, and you know what, I really made
(32:35):
a mistake on I thought, to your point, on reality TV,
I thought it would run its course, like, hey, listen,
we've got enough. There's a new one every single night.
Every single night, there's a new reality show.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Dude, there's like a new you know whoever. It could
be a former athlete, it could be an actor, like
like there's just like fallowing their lives, like fallowing them around.
It's it's odd because I'm thinking, like, yo, you could
just have a social media channel that does this. I
don't know, you need the whole production as part of it.
But I'm always more curious, like who's watching that, Like
who is so fascinated with this individual and how they
(33:10):
live that they're watching And on top of that, who
thinks it's one hundred percent real. It's not fabricated. There's
not like there's writers to these reality TV shows. I
would hope people are smart enough at home to realize
if there's a writer, it's not real. Like again, people
get upset with me because I make this comment about WWE.
(33:31):
It's a drama. It's scripted. Like, it's not like sports,
where there's not a scripted outcome, contrary to what many
people believe. So it's like, I don't know how you
could get as dramatic about it. I guess you can,
at least in the storyline for WWE, because there's different
surprises and things that come out. But when you're sold
the idea that it's reality TV and you're falling around
(33:53):
these people and they're just quote unquote daily lives, you
get the sense that like, oh, they're not. This is
what they do. It's like, know it's not They go
specifically to certain places to promote it, to create drama,
to create a storyline, to do something. Otherwise, why the
hell would you watch?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Right, there's a new like home repair show every single night,
like Building Birmingham, tearing down Tulsa. It's like, dude, like,
how many of these are there and and yeah, I
don't know if any of them are real, Like I
don't know, Like I've heard people say like, yeah, you
know a lot of those you know, the people that
(34:31):
are that are looking at buying homes on those shows,
Like it's not it's not true, it's not accurate, like
it's it's usually somebody else. I think Tim Dillon actually
broke it down because he worked in the real estate
business for a while. But you know, we cannot play
any of those clips on this show because Tim Dillon
lets it, he lets it fly a little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
And also I would say if I were you, i'd
be uh, I tread lightly on your criticism of WWE.
It's WrestleMania season, so.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I know people get really offended by this. I'm like,
I'm sorry, Like it's for you, it doesn't have to
be for me, Like I can I can go attend,
I can watch, I can appreciate. I'll say this, it
is the most collaborative experience I've ever been too, Like
watching how the crowd reacts to who comes out for
(35:19):
each match. I've never seen any team in any environment
anywhere that is as in Unison for that moment, like
it's got all eyes, everyone's sharing, everyone's doing, seeing the
song or chant whatever it is, Like, it is unique
in that sense where I've never seen an audience that
(35:40):
in tune with what was happening. Yeah, so it definitely
does have that.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
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Speaker 2 (36:37):
After your sports weekend happens. So it's time to get
the FSR IR report, Brady.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I've been told that Lorena has an IR to report
here on the show.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
So really this weekend what happened? No?
Speaker 5 (36:52):
No, no, I'm a little clumsy, and you know when
you do things that you know you shouldn't do, but
you do them anyways. So I was trying to cut
some straws out with a steak knife and the plastic
was really thick, and I went a little too hard
and I jabbed it right. The steak knife went deep
between my thumb and my my pointer finger and like
(37:14):
the webbing of my fingers. Yeah, and I've tried to
keep it shut all weekend, and I keep on pulling
it back open and you can look down like inside
my hand, and it's absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
So how are you trying to keep it shut?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I use these like super fast healing skin adhesive ones,
but they were sticky all the way across the middle.
So when I pulled it off, it pulled apart and
then I used super glue. I thought super glue would work.
Also ended up having to pull that off. So it's
just a bad situation. I think it's gonna get infected.
I'm going to look like Lee here in a couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I'm sure what I heard actually works. It like put
a salt and squeezed lemon into like do the trick.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
That sounds horrible, Like.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Whatever happened to neo sporn? Is that not a thing anymore?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's still out there.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I mean it feels like a neosporn band aid type thing.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Yeah, it's more of just like the area that it's in,
Like if you got to cut on your elbow, you
always bend your elbow. How is it supposed to heal?
You know?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah, that's bad. That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I just had a bird that was I kept hearing
this this tap. I'm like, what the hell is that?
And I literally walked upstairs. I thought I was like
one of my kids playing with a toy above me,
and I finally just walked over the window. There's a bird.
It literally kept tapping on the window. Yeah, I'm like,
there's actual legitimate like I think the thing is as
(38:37):
pecked at it enough and I don't know over the
weekend because I wasn't really in the office, like down
in here, like what was going on. But I finally
walked over like scared it away. But I think I
think I was trying to break the glass.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Birds are chirping. But is the weather improving out there?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
By the way, you guys know, we actually got a
slight dusting of snow. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
It's April.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I know people in the Midwest, they get used to it.
This is this is why you really can't chime in
on anything Midwest. You don't know anything about that life
because you have you have no idea about the joy
of waking up on one April morning and they're being
snow on.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
The ground, like having to sift through snow to get
Easter eggs, Like that's not a you don't.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Think they do that in Miami sometimes.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I mean, yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, that's that
is a good point. Happy Eastern, by the way,